November 18, 2006, Saturday

Tegla Loroupe, the Kenyan who won the New York City Marathon in 1994 and 1995 at the height of her career, has surprisingly entered the Avon Running Global Championship, which is next Sunday in Bangkok. Loroupe said she wanted to run with Restituta...

November 3, 2002, Sunday

Noah Ngeny, the Olympic 1,500-meter champion, and Tegla Loroupe, the world record-holder in the women's marathon, have been dropped from Kenya's track team for next month's world championships for failing to meet a July 20 deadline to return to...

July 20, 2001, Friday

Hardly bigger than a pillow mint, Tegla Loroupe finally settled into a plush couch lined with overstuffed cushions that all but gobbled up her indefatigable body. Just an hour after her 10-hour flight arrived Tuesday afternoon, the fresh-pressed...

November 2, 2000, Thursday

Seven times Africans have won the Olympic marathon, but they have been a barefoot Ethiopian running through the torchlit night in Rome, and a South African miner racing into daylight after the darkness of apartheid. An Ethiopian woman has won, too,...

August 13, 2000, Sunday

Tegla Loroupe, the London Marathon champion, ran her best race in Kenya yesterday, winning the women's 10,000-meter final in 32 minutes 13.5 seconds and earning a berth on the national track team for the Sydney Olympics.

At the 1-mile mark of the New York Mini Marathon yesterday, the official race truck ordered the police motorcycle escort and the vehicle carrying the news media to speed it up. ''They're catching up,'' the driver barked over the microphone.

June 11, 2000, Sunday

Paul Tergat of Kenya smashed his world record today in winning the Lisbon half-marathon, and compatriot Tegla Loroupe won the women's race for the sixth time. Tergat ran the 13.1-mile circuit across the Tagus River and along riverside streets in...

March 27, 2000, Monday

Josephat Kiprono of Kenya won yesterday's Rome Millennium Marathon through the streets of the Italian capital in a time of 2 hours 8 minutes 27 seconds. Kiprono, 26, the prerace favorite and winner of the Berlin marathon in September, finished ahead...

January 2, 2000, Sunday

Paul Tergat of Kenya overcame a collision and used a strong kick to pass South Africa's Hendrick Ramaala in the final stages yesterday to win the World Half-Marathon Championship at Palermo, Sicily. Tergat, a five-time cross-country world...